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SDCC, Day 3 | The Force is with Marvel

Although Saturday at Comic-Con International was dominated by movies and television — led by Warner Bros. Pictures, Marvel Studios and Legendary Pictures — there was still room for plenty of comics news. First and foremost, the announcement of Marvel’s Star Wars plans.

“What’s great about this time period is that all the characters are kind of on the table,” Aaron told CBR News. “Of course this is still early on and these people have pretty much just met each and just come together. So they’re still finding their place within this group and sort of figuring out their relationships with each other. Then there’s the fact that when you look at the gap between Episode IV and Episode V there’s some pretty major beats that happen off screen. So this gives up the opportunity to grab those beats and lay them down as part of the same canon as the movies.”

• UDON Entertainment unveiled a hefty slate that includes Ryou Akizuki’s Kill la Kill manga adaptation, a collection of the ShiftyLook webcomic Katamari by Alex Culang and Raynato Castro, manga adaptations of The Scarlet Letter, Great Expectations and Emma, the second volume of Makeshift Miracle by Jim Zub and Shun Hong Chan, the artbooks Osamu Tezuka Anime Character Sketchbook and Osamu Tezuka Anime Character Illustrations, and a series of Robotech/Macross artbooks. See the full rundown on the publisher’s website.